I have a app config file with a filewatch file path as a setting. This way the user can change that file path easily on site. My problem comes into play when the file path, usually to another computer on the network is not valid, then I will get a not so nice microsoft error. I would like to catch this error, and put in a friendly msgbox to tell the user it's just an invalid file path. But the file watch is on my first form on the program, and having the catch on the onload of the form is not soon enough. I can catch the error on the form1.designer.vb, but I don't think your suppose to modify that. Cause when I do, bad things happen, like i'm not able to get my form in design mode.
I am trying to save a path to my settings, it just dont want to work.
Private Sub BulletPathButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BulletPathButton.Click Dim OpenFileDialog As New OpenFileDialog If OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
I am using My.Settings to store the path of my crystal reports. Now I wish to place my crystal reports within local execute path. So how do I set within My.Settings to detect the local run path?I tried putting application.localuserappdatapath in application settings which return back as a string.
how to change the default path of settings file for the application when installing??and where I need to change in application so that the application takes this file as setting file for itself (means it do not search in default location )
I have a textbox in my program which refers to the user specified path. Everytime the program is started it retrieve the setting : Private Sub frmmain_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load If My.Settings.path <> "" And My.Computer.FileSystem.DirectoryExists(My.Settings.path) = True Then txtpath.Text = My.Settings.path ElseIf My.Settings.path = "" Then When I try the program on my own system there is no problem. But the customers said that everytime they start the program the messagebox popups and they have to choose the path again and again.
Is it possible to check to see if a program made by my company (I fill out all the publisher stuff in vb) is installed on the computer, and if it is can i have another program read the My.Settings of the installed program that i was looking for.I am using VB Express 2010 with click once deployment.
But problem is when load my application first time My.Settings.GlobalDataSet is null. a error rise in secound line is NullReferenceException. i try to write below:
If My.Settings.GlobalDataSet = "" Then GlobalDataSet = My.Settings.GlobalDataSet[code]....
but it say sindex error. is there any code for check My.Settings.GlobalDataSet is null or not null.
I am using a check box tied to a program settings. When I am in form designer my check box property is "unchecked", however, when I debug my program the checkbox is checked.
My value for my settings is set to false and my property setting is also false.
In my app I have a dialog in which the user can select a database backup location. If want to warn the user if the location he/she selected is "probably not secure".[code]...
How can I get this kind of info about a selected folder? I know about the DriveInfo class, but it only handles drive letter, not UNC
To write a new file to the hard drive Ive always used for example:- FileOpen(1, "C:\FileName.txt", OpenMode.Output) Trying this today I get an error message Access to the path 'C:\Check.txt' is denied.MSDN say I should use: - Dim file As System.IO.FileStream file = System.IO.File.Create("c:\test.txt")So although I couldnt see how to specify the mode I tried: Dim file As System.IO.FileStream file = System.IO.File.Create("c:\Check.txt")With exactly the same result Access to the path 'C:\Check.txt' is denied. It says I dont have permission.
I want to check the connection of server path eg[ URL] whether exists or notI tried this System.IO.Directory.Exists("http://localhost/MyProject/ ")but it always return false.So does anybody know how to check it?
I am creating a web browser as a school project. One feature I hope to include involves a splash screen check the state of a Boolean (True/False) at launch and then open the appropriate form. I know that I will need an 'If' statement in the code of a splash screen but I am not sure how I would go about making it do this.
I want to make a program which first of all check whether a serie of programs is installed, if a program is installed I would like to find the installation path, so I will be able to work with it further..My first though was to check in the registry, there is theinstallation path also mentioned right?Another possible way was to search all the harddrives for a specific .exe fil. If then the file is found, the program is installed, and you should be able to find the path to the found .exe file. This is more "secure", right? - Because not all program is registred in the registry right? (E.g. if you move it from another location, and doesn't install it).
I have a program that copies files to several servers in succession. If one of those servers is unavailable for any reason, my program hangs for about a minute before it continues on to the next server. Is there a quicker way to determine if the path is available or not?
LDAP check dir exists when authentication is none Experts I am try to check if an LDAP path exists and the following code works fine if the AuthenticationType is not none. How do you check this if the LDAP does not use authentication?
In an app I am writing I need to be able to display the current settings of the following:- Windows "automatically restart on error" setting from advanced, startup and recovery section Paging file size and whether it is custom size or set to system managed Is this at all possible? perhaps VB has a function to do so I cannot find, or perhaps I can do by querying a registry value?
I have a Access program and I'm using VBA code in the background to run Winunzip using shell command. Well, the path of the .zip file has spaces in it and it's not recongizing the path as a valid path. Is there a another way to tackle this problem besides the shell?I can't us pkzip either. Has you can see I had to use progra~1 instead of Program Files.[code]
[Code] I want like to check if a file exist on main form, if not: force open settings form. And then when the user is closing the form with exit button = check if the file exist again. If it doesn't exist, close application. It's a huge application and I need optimized on most parts. Also, the settings form is asking the closing question two times.
The company has been using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 2.0 for approximately 2 years. During that time we released several versions (4.x.x) of our program to the public and were able to preserve the user's settings using My.Settings.Upgrade.During the past development cycle we upgraded the program to Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 and changed the version to 5.x.x. Now, when a user upgrades from 4.x.x to 5.x.x they lose all of their settings.However, in all upgrades after that point (ie 5.0 to 5.1) all the user's settings are once again preserved.I checked C:Documents and Settings<USER_NAME>Local SettingsApplication DataCompanyName and it contains two directories:
ApplicationName_Url_aaa ApplicationName_Url_bbb
where aaa and bbb are 32 character strings. All of the user.config files for the 4.x.x releases can be found in the ApplicationName_ Url_aaa directory. All of the user.config files for the 5.x.x releases can be found in the ApplicationName_Url_bbb directory.Based on this information it seems like something changed when we converted our program to VS2010 and Framework4 that is now causing a different 32 character string to be generated. However, we have been unable to track it down.
I have the following structure:OLD: frmMain (WinForm)uscStat (UserControl with Grid) In frmMain I'm able to make some settings and load the result of the settings via LinQ into the Grid of the uscStat.
I just wondered if you can or can't save arrays using the settings system object. There seems to be no way of entering it at designtime. It seems implied you cannot create new user settings.subobjects at runtime. I'm looking to find the easiest way to save a populated array of PictureBox's. If the only way is a self/custom made/managed .ini file then I need to know so i can start on that but I was hoping to use some of all this phaff in the new frameworks usefully.
I am rewritting my application to conform to ms standards. We used to save all settings to registry for user settings, servername, size and locations.so we are now saving them into My.Settings app.config the only problem is that each time there is an update clickonce will isntall the newupdate but now all settings are loist and user has to save everything all over again..
I am trying to follow the book here but it seems i keep getting stuck somewhere. registry has worked fine for years but i understand we must move on, but if stuff like this happens then i just wasted a long time converting all code to conform for it to not work..
Is there a way to maintain application modified Settings in the settings files after a program update? i.e. I have 10 or so values in the settings file and the users can modify them... when I send a program update they revert back to what I initially programmed them to be.
i have created a user setting named 'setmeup' as string, scope = user, value = "magical meow meow!".in my code i access it and assign it a new value like this...my.settings.setmeup = "howdy cowboy!"my.settings.save()application.restart()when the application restarts, i expect the my.settings.setmeup = "howdy cowboy!" but when i check its contents its still "magical meow meow!".but when i use application.exit() instead of application.restart() and manually restart the program, my.settings.setmeup = "howdy cowboy!" which is correct.what must i do? i want to use application.restart() because i don't want the users to double-click the icon again to start the program. i want the program to restart automatically.
1. I can't find the file which reflects changes to user settings. This might be because I just can't find it (I can see a bunch of user.config files but they are all empty - weird!), or...
2. I'm not actually saving them when I think I am.
Regarding 2. - do I need to invoke
Is this all I need? And if so, why are my user.configs empty?
